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docs(scout): roster review — broken scrapers, dead lanes, verified adds

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Analysis of the 34-company roster against 4 recent runs and 253 decisions.
No COMPANIES changes.

Findings: Roche/Meta/Apple silently scrape garbage (non-CH rows, 1 intern,
internships-only) — same silent-failure class as the dbt Labs 404; seven boards
have no _title_filter; MET+LDC yielded 0 eligible across 1,464 scrapes.

Verified adds: Amazon/AWS (32 CH roles incl. a Zurich AWS FDE req, and AWS is
the evidenced cloud where GCP is forbidden) and Axpo (Teamtailor custom domain,
400 roles incl. Forward Deployed AI Engineer, opens the named energy lane).

Verified negative: Coinbase proper has 2 EMEA-remote non-eng roles; the
remote-EU data-infra tier is geo-banded below the comp bar.

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# Scout roster review — 2026-08-18
Analysis only. No changes made to `COMPANIES`. Every claim below was verified by probing the
live endpoint; unverified candidates are listed separately as *probe-worthy*, not as recommendations.
Method: aggregated the scan-stats tables from the four most recent full runs (2026-07-14, 07-27,
08-07, 08-18), cross-referenced `state/decisions.json` (253 decisions), and live-probed candidate
ATS endpoints.
---
## 1. Three scrapers are silently broken
Same failure class as the dbt Labs 404 fixed earlier today, but worse: these return HTTP 200 and
plausible-looking rows, so the report shows "0 matches" and nothing looks wrong. **A company that
scrapes garbage is indistinguishable from a company with no openings.**
| Company | What it actually returns | Verified |
|---|---|---|
| **Roche** | Shanghai, Kyiv, Petaling Jaya, Bogota, Berlin, Mannheim, Penzberg. **Zero Swiss roles** despite Basel HQ — the `locationsearch=Switzerland` URL param is being ignored and an unfiltered default page is scraped. | live scrape, 10/10 rows non-CH |
| **Meta** | **1 row**: "Research Scientist Intern, AI/ML, Core Ads Growth (PhD)". Meta Zurich is a real engineering office. The `offices[0]=Zurich` filter or the lazy-load scroll is failing. | live scrape, 4 jobs across 4 runs |
| **Apple** | 21 rows, **all** internships, "Where we're hiring", and "US - Specialist: Seasonal, Part-time". Zero actual engineering reqs. | live scrape, all 21 rows |
**This invalidates a conclusion in the yield data.** Apple shows 21 decisions, all `skip`, 0 signal —
that reads as "Apple is a bad fit" but it is really "the scraper only ever saw the internships page."
Don't drop Apple on that evidence; fix the scrape first, then judge.
## 2. Seven boards have no title filter at all
`_title_filter` is absent on **BKW, SBB, BFH, PostFinance, Swissgrid, Novartis, Palantir**. This is
why reports drown in *Mitarbeiter/in Hausdienst*, *Financial Accountant*, *Studiengangsleiter Master
Physiotherapie*, *SAP Consultant Treasury*.
| Company | Eligible → match ≥2 (4 runs) | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| BKW | 61 / 75 scraped | 81% of the entire board "matches" |
| SBB | 27 / 27 | 100% — filter is doing nothing |
| BFH | 29 / 48 | 60% |
| Novartis | 105 eligible → 21 match | 23 skips vs 3 shortlists |
**These need a title filter, not removal.** BKW/SBB/BFH/PostFinance/Swissgrid are the Bern/Thun
WLB-exception tier where below-bar comp is deliberately accepted — the lane is intentional, the
noise is not. RUAG already carries a 29-term filter and behaves (13 eligible → 7 match); it is the
model to copy.
## 3. The yield metric in the decisions log is confounded
Raw decision counts reward boards with *no* title filter — more rows surfaced means more `skip`
rows recorded. Normalising to signal (`shortlist`+`applied`+`maybe`) per eligible role inverts the
ranking: **Snowflake** (5 decisions → 1 applied, 1 shortlist, 1 maybe off 14 eligible) is a far
better board than **Novartis** (31 decisions → 3 shortlists off 105 eligible). Worth keeping in
mind before reading the decisions log as a quality signal.
## 4. Dead lanes
- **MET Group + Louis Dreyfus: 1,464 roles scraped across 4 runs → 0 eligible, 0 matches. Ever.**
Both are title-filtered correctly; they simply have no CH/remote-CH engineering roles. LDC is
Geneva/Rotterdam-anchored (French). The commodity-trading lane is configured and producing nothing.
- **Norway (Telenor, Equinor, NATO JWC Stavanger)** — three of 34 companies on a lane your own notes
call mostly closed: comp below the 180k bar, Norwegian at A2, no clearance. Equinor just came back
rejected at 79 days. Consolidation candidate, though NATO JWC has an open application pending.
---
## 5. Verified adds — both confirmed live
### Amazon / AWS — the single biggest gap
`https://www.amazon.jobs/en/search.json?normalized_country_code[]=CHE` → clean public JSON, **32 CH roles**.
Among them, live right now:
- **Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering — Zurich**
- Sr. Delivery Consultant – AI/ML, Professional Services — Zurich
- Sr Specialist SA – GenAI, Specialists Team Germany/Switzerland — Zurich
- Senior Security Assurance Solutions Architect, AWS Security Assurance — Zurich
Why this matters more than any other candidate: **AWS is the primary cloud in the evidence base**
(SW-1 migration, the Swisscom data products). `claims.json:274` marks GCP `evidence: unverified,
output: forbidden` — which is exactly what hard-gated the two Google GenAI FDE reqs this morning.
An AWS-native FDE req in Zurich is the same lane without the cloud gap. Clears the comp bar.
No adapter work needed beyond a thin JSON fetcher.
### Axpo — the energy-trading lane, finally live
`https://careers.axpo.com/jobs.json` — Teamtailor on a custom domain. **400 roles, 98 tech-ish.**
Note the feed is JSON Feed format keyed `items`, not `jobs`, so the existing `fetch_teamtailor`
needs a small tweak (and the demo-board fingerprint guard still applies).
Live right now: **"Forward Deployed AI Engineer (f/m/d)"**, plus Senior Application Manager/Solution
Architect, Quantitative Modeller, Junior/Financial Data Analyst, Leiter/in IT Division Hydroenergie.
Memory (`user_role_targeting_energy_trading`) names Axpo and Alpiq explicitly as targets — data/
platform engineering *inside* a trading shop, not ETRM or quant. Only MET was ever configured, and
MET has produced nothing. Axpo is German-speaking (Baden/Zurich), which fits the DE/EN profile that
rules out the Geneva traders.
## 6. Verified negative — do not add
- **Coinbase proper.** Greenhouse board `coinbase` is live (169 jobs) but has exactly **2 EMEA-remote
roles, both non-engineering** (Business Controller, Threat Assessment Manager). The Ventures board
removed earlier was portfolio-only, so Coinbase was never really covered — but covering it properly
gains nothing. Crypto lane stays Kraken + Bitcoin Suisse.
- **Alpiq, Glencore, Swiss Re, Sunrise** — no SmartRecruiters, Greenhouse, Ashby or Lever board found.
Careers sites are bespoke/JS-rendered with no discoverable JSON API in a network trace. Not worth
Playwright maintenance on spec.
- **The remote-EU data-infra tier as a category** (ClickHouse, MongoDB, Redis, Temporal, Airbyte,
Starburst…). Skipping this deliberately: Grafana is already on the roster and memory flags it as
**below-bar geo-fenced comp**. These firms band EU-remote salaries the same way, so the whole tier
fails the 180k bar regardless of role fit. Elastic/Confluent/Grafana already cover the archetype.
## 7. Probe-worthy — not yet verified, do not add on my word
- **CERN** (`careers.cern/jobs`) — has dedicated "Data Science, AI & Analytics" and "Information
Technologies" fields of work. English-working international organisation in CH, i.e. the same lane
as the BIS Basel application. Needs a scrape-mechanics check. Best remaining unverified candidate.
- **Swiss Post** (`career.post.ch`) — Bern-headquartered, has an "Informatik und Digital Services"
category, fits the Bern WLB tier alongside PostFinance (already scraped, and a Swiss Post company).
My probe timed out on `networkidle`; needs a retry with a laxer wait.
- **NATO NCIA** (`ncia.nato.int/careers.html`) — the current `nato` adapter returns 4 reqs, all JWC
Stavanger. NCIA is NATO's actual technology arm (Brussels/The Hague/Mons) and is a separate
pipeline. Worth checking whether it is separately scrapable — it would be the one way to keep a
NATO lane without the Norway constraints.
- **SIX Group** — fingerprinted as SuccessFactors (`career_company=sixgroupse`). Zurich financial-
market infrastructure. Endpoint pattern is known; content unverified.
---
## Suggested order of work
1. **Fix Roche / Meta / Apple** — restores three companies that currently contribute nothing while
appearing healthy. Highest value per unit effort, and it's a correctness bug, not a preference.
2. **Add Amazon/AWS** — trivial adapter, an on-profile Zurich FDE req live today.
3. **Add Axpo** — small `fetch_teamtailor` tweak for the `items` key; opens the energy lane.
4. **Add title filters** to BKW, SBB, BFH, PostFinance, Swissgrid, Novartis, Palantir.
5. **Decide on MET/LDC and the Norway three** — a judgment call, not a bug.
6. Probe CERN, Swiss Post, NATO NCIA, SIX.